Institute For The Future and Knowledgeworks Foundation have pieced together an amazing, mind-blowing scenario map ‘Map of Future Forces Affecting Public Education 2006-2016′.
They have created an extraordinary set of drivers and impacts as well
as very through out hotspots, trends, and dilemmas. IFTF always seems
to be putting out exceptional research that is written in straight
forward language. [...]
There’s been a lot of recent positive press about Second Life. Valleywag has a different perspective. Come to think of it, Valleywag also has a different perspective on the press.
He mentions Second Life in the same breath as other failed virtual worlds. I wonder if he knew that the second Relay For Life netted $40,000 [...]
Last night ABC Primetime had a fantastic report called ‘The Human Chain’.
The social experiment was conducted in New York and followed two
Manhattanintes as they tried to leverage their social circles to create
a direct consistent human chain to a boxer in Brooklyn. The experiment
was a real life examination of the Karinthy Frigyes and then Stanley Milgram’s [...]
Trendwatching.com’s latest update takes another look at their own definition of Generation ‘C’. The original definition of the ‘C’ was content, and this was kosher as hundreds of thousands of folks threw their own homeberw of video, music, and art up onto the internet for the world to consume freely. Now the shift has come [...]
Seth Godin posts about Npower, a nonprofit that "puts technology know-how in the hands of nonprofits." They have a one-pager on how nonprofits can benefit from Web 2.0.
I like anyone who can put this much information on one piece of paper. It also utilizes the KISS principle, another good reason to read it.
In the good old days donors stayed with a charity and paid in $3, $5 or so. Nowadays, charities can’t afford that. The donor market is changing. The $5 gift might be a thing of the past. Nonprofirts are moving towards the higher value donor and what steps can be taken to identify who they [...]
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Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund charitablegift.org [...]
Burned Non Profits Try to Make it Harder to Renege on Gifts: We had a recent article on how billionaires gave. Now it seems that many of those gifts are not funded fully.
A number of non profits are asking donors to sign legally binding gift agreements rather than rely on the loose arrangements some [...]
